Chapter 5: Fighting like Humans
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. This one was a fun one to write and I even introduced some new characters. Both from my original story and new ones. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy
We find ourselves in Eda's basement where Eda had some mats set up and Luz and Minato were dressed in sleeveless shirts and workout pants.
Around them were some weights, a treadmill, a punching bag a few pads and for some reason a football dummy.
"Alright kids, you ready for your first training session?" Eda asks walking in wearing a red tracksuit.
"Bring it on." Luz said ready.
"We can take whatever you got." Minato said.
"Alright, the problem is you two have tons of power but you have no way of controlling it in our world. You two are like bullets. Put too much power into it and you destroy stuff, put too little and it's a love tap. In other words, you two need to know how to punch." Eda said.
"We've been avoiding the Emperor's guards for years, we know how to punch." Minato smirks.
"Yeah how about a challenge." Luz said.
"Oh yeah? Show me." Eda holds up her hands for them to punch.
Stepping up first, Luz punches Eda's hand.
"Terrible. You next." Eda said as Minato punched her other hand. "Lame."
"Oh yeah, why don't you show us how to punch." Minato challenges.
Smirking Eda watched both kids hold up their hands but instead she went right for their faces knocking them onto the mats.
"That's how you punch." Eda smiles.
"Okay we should have seen that coming." Luz groans holding her head in pain.
"Is this just an excuse to beat them up?" King asks sitting nearby.
"I'm not gonna lie that's a big plus to this." Eda chuckles.
"Alright you got your laugh. Now train us." Minato said.
"Fine up." Eda said as both stood up. "Now I'm gonna throw a lot at you. Everything I've learned from my past and my mistakes."
"Translation: illegal stuff." King said.
"Now your world is full of dangerous beasts and powerful wizards who are as destructive as you guys. You've been fighting fire with fire for a while and that's been good but now's the time to step up." Eda said.
First Eda had them doing tons of push-ups and in front of her.
"You kids use your hands a lot to cast spells but I bet you've never once used them to do manual work." Eda said.
"Well…" Luz cringed.
"So in order to fight you kids need some upper body strength." Eda said.
Next Minato was lifting barbells.
"Is that all you got?!" Eda yells as Minato lifted to a cringe. "My grandma could lift more than you!"
Next Luz was doing pull-ups and struggling to get her head up there.
"Yes." Luz said doing it.
"Only 29 more to go." Eda said casually making Luz fall down.
Next they were doing suicides through the room multiple times.
"Come on you slackers. Keep up." Eda said as they struggled to match her moves.
An hour later, the most wanted and powerful duo on the Boiling Isles were laying down on the mats exhausted and sweating bullets.
"Not so easy fighting like a human, is it?" Eda asks putting water bottles down near them.
Getting up the two of them chugged them down resulting in them coughing.
"Oh titan that was painful." Minato groans.
"Speak for yourself I was having a blast." Eda said.
"You were wearing us out and throwing us around the room like ragdolls." Luz said.
"I know. And it was so much fun. I haven't had a good time like this in a while." Eda laughs. "Maybe next I'll show you some of my underground fighting moves."
Cringing both teens look at each other nervously.
Things were not gonna be easy for them, that was established today.
The next morning, Luz and Minato were at their lockers groaning tired from their training with Eda.
"Man who knew fighting like a human could make you so sore?" Luz groans.
"I feel even worse than yesterday." Minato said rubbing his shoulder.
"Hey guys." Akko said patting them on the shoulders making them cringe in pain.
"Akko, good to see you." Luz said.
"Whoa are you guys okay? You don't look so hot." Akko asks.
"Just a long night." Luz brushes off.
"I've been there." Akko said.
"So Akko what's to do around here?" Minato asks.
"Well most people have usually joined a club by now. I bet if we looked around we could find something for you guys." Akko said.
"I guess that would be fun." Luz said.
"That's what I'd like to hear." Akko smiles.
In the room, a teenage boy was strumming his guitar. He had short brown hair, green eyes, a blue vest, dark green pants and a green shirt with scaley patterns. This was Ezra Bazil.
As the door opens, the boy began rocking out on it making a cool tune.
"Hmm not bad." Minato said.
"Yeah I've never heard a bard make music like that." Luz agrees.
"Hey Ezra!" Akko calls out getting his attention.
"Oh hey Akko." He said turning to them. "Where's Willow and who are these two?"
"Willow's at her club, these are some new friends she introduced me to." Akko gestures.
"I'm Luz, this is my best friend Minato." Luz said.
"You guys must be those new transfer students I heard about. Nice to meet you. You guys play?" Ezra asks.
"Well I do a little singing." Minato admits.
"Really? What about you?" Ezra asks looking at Luz.
"No, no, no I haven't played in a while." Luz said.
"You wanna try?" Ezra asks holding up his guitar.
"We're good." Both said.
"Sorry Ezra guess you won't be getting those new bandmates." Akko said.
"Oh well." Ezra chuckles.
"So Akko what club are you in?" Luz asks.
"Oh Gus and I are trying to make a new club. The Magical Appreciation club. So we can learn all about witches, wizards and all magical things." Akko said making them nervous.
"All magical things?" Luz gulps.
"Yeah do you guys wanna join?" Akko asks.
"Uh we'll think about it. For now how about we see what else is around?" Minato suggests.
"Sure thing." Akko smiles.
The next stop was the school greenhouse, there they saw Willow helping take care of the garden.
"Kinda like the Plant Track." Luz said.
Spending the day with Akko they saw quite a few other clubs, the drama club, the chess club and even the movie and computer club.
So any idea which club you guys wanna join?" Akko asks.
"This might take a while for us to figure out." Luz said.
"Well luckily there's no rush." Akko said.
As they walked out, Minato saw Amity down the hall talking to a girl with platinum blonde hair, a white long sleeve shirt under a purple shirt and a skirt. This was Diana Cavendish.
"Hey it's her." Minato said.
"Her?" Luz narrowed her eyes while Akko walks over.
"You know them?" Akko asks.
"Not really I mean that one helped me when I first got here." Minato said pointing at her.
"Amity helping someone? That's a little hard to believe." Akko said.
"Sounds like you know her pretty well." Minato said.
"I know both of them, Amity and Diana are some of the most popular girls in school, but unlike the others they don't stick with a group. They don't exactly join in the bullying but they don't help either." Akko said.
'Then why did she help me?' Minato thought confused as both girls walked away.
Later that day as the sun was setting, Minato and Luz were back to training and needless to say Eda had made it a new kind of difficult.
At her shop, Minato was in charge of cleaning the windows but Eda was making him do it in a weird manner.
"No, no like this." Eda moves his hand left and right and them up and down. "Up down, left right."
Rolling his eyes, Minato did it her way.
Outside, Eda walks out to see Luz waxing Eda's car.
"How is this helping us train?" Luz asks waxing with one hand and wiping off with the other.
"No, no, no." Eda got behind Luz and moved her hands in big circular motions. "Wax on, wax off."
"This is ridiculous." Luz mumbles.
"I wanna see that car shine." Eda said as Luz did it the way she showed.
After that, Eda put them on different chores.
As Minato was dusting the shelves, Eda made him do it by moving his hand in quick motions, Luz had to do some painting on some old furniture.
The next day, the two of them were on long run with Eda as they ran through the park.
"Come on slowpokes, my grandma could run faster than you!" Eda yells leaving them in the dust.
"Damn you." Minato said running after her.
Next they were doing heavy lifting.
At Eda's shop, both of them were carrying heavy boxes off trucks and to people's cars.
At the junkyard, Eda had them moving giant heavy tires towards her truck much to their disappointment.
"Alright kids, last excerice of the day." Eda said.
Hearing this both teens smiled at the thought of being done.
As they followed Eda towards her last exercise, they passed by the library.
There one of the employees brough the flowers in, including the one that had half of the portal key.
"Hmm what's this?" Looking inside, she pulls out the broken key. "Hmm well maybe it can be a bookmark."
Walking to the front desk, she put the key in the book she was reading and closed it.
Little did she know another worker came by and grabbed it.
As she carried it to the shelf, she placed it in the kid's section revealing the title to be Otabin.
Inside a tall building, Luz and Minato looked up a super tall staircase.
"Oh wow that's a lot of stairs." Minato said looking up.
"You want us to climb how many floors exactly?" Luz asks.
"All of them, King and I will be waiting at the top." Eda said walking to the elevator.
"Wait what?!" Both said looking at her.
"Don't worry you can do it." Eda said as the door closed.
"Ugh let's just get this over with." Minato said.
"It's no trouble, we used to hike all the time as kids. We can do this." Luz said.
As they ran up the first few flights of stairs the two of them were going at a good jog.
"Ha you're right Luz. We'll make it to the top in no time." Minato said.
However as they got higher up it got harder and harder.
"Wow there are a lot more stairs than I thought." Luz pants.
"Just keep the pace." Minato pants.
Soon the two of them were crawling up the stairs they were so tired.
"How do humans live like this? So many stairs in one place." Luz whines.
"Making us climb the biggest staircase in town." Minato groans.
"EDA YOU ARE THE WORST!" Both of them screamed in agony.
On the roof, Eda was sitting in a foldaway chair sipping a beer with King laying nearby perking his head up.
"Whoa boy." King muttered.
"Oh relax it's only been a half hour. They should be up sooner or later." Eda said looking at her phone.
"You know I think their patience is wearing thin." King said.
"What makes you say that?" Eda asks.
"I just heard them yelling your name in anger." King said.
"I didn't hear anything." Eda said.
"I'm a cat, my hearing is sharper than you humans." King said.
"Well what did they say?" Eda asks.
"They called you the worst." King said.
"The worst? I am offended. I am offering my time and services to make them better." Eda said.
"By making them clean your shop?" King raised an eyebrow.
"There's a method to my madness." Eda said when the door swung open revealing an exhausted Luz and Minato.
"Eda…we've had…enough of you…tricks." Minato said in between breaths.
"You are…evil." Luz pants.
"Oh you kids ready to head down?" Eda asks.
"No we are not! Alright we are sick of this! We've been putting up with your help for days and you haven't taught us a thing!" Minato snaps.
"It's just all these stupid exercises! We're not learning how to fight at all!" Luz said.
"I've taught you stuff." Eda said.
"Yeah how to clean your windows, dust your shelves." Minato lists.
"Wax your car, paint your furniture, and every other stupid and tiring exercise but not one of them had anything to do with fighting." Luz finishes.
"Nothing huh?" Eda said putting her hands on her hips.
"We should have seen this coming. What's next you gonna make us turn your home into gold, make you diamonds, use our magic to make your life easy? Is that all we are to you Eda? A way to make a quick buck?!" Luz snaps.
As Eda throws a quick punch, Luz reacted and blocked it surprising them.
"Huh?" Luz said not expecting that.
"You blocked it?" Minato said equally surprised.
Turning to him, Eda attacked Minato but when she swings in for a kick Minato blocks it.
"I actually saw that coming." Minato said.
"Of course you did, because of my workout training." Eda said lowering her foot.
"But how?" Luz asks.
"I've been putting you kids through all this to strengthen your muscles and sharpen your reflexes. You think normal people could have cleared this building in your time? Not even close." Eda said.
"Wait this wasn't a scam?" Luz asks.
"Look I'm many things: a thief, a con artist, devilishly good looking, but I'm not a liar. I know how important it is for you kids. Now that you actually have some practice, we can turn this into fighting styles." Eda said.
"Eda…wow." Minato said as both started calming down.
"Show me dust the shelves." Eda said.
As she threw a punch Minato moves his hand up blocking it.
"Luz show me wax on wax off." Eda said.
Going on the attack, Luz blocked Eda's strike.
"Those are your basic blocks. I had you do them so much in the cleaning you have them memorized in your muscles." Eda said.
"Where did you learn this?" Minato asks.
"Saw it in a movie once." Eda shrugs. "Still think I'm using you two just to make a buck or some cheap laughs?"
"I am so sorry Eda." Minato said.
"Me too." Luz said.
"Look I get that you two grew up with targets on your back, but you gotta trust me. Right now I'm all you guys got and you two are the only way we can fight off all the craziness from your world until know how to send you back." Eda said.
"Alright Eda, we get it now." Luz said.
"So does that mean we can start learning to fight?" Minato asks.
"I don't know we might need another week do you kids even know how to punch?" Eda asks.
Hearing this both teens smirk getting the same idea.
"Oh we know how to punch." Luz said.
"Oh yeah? Show me." Eda said holding up her hands.
Nodding both of them pulled back their fists and threw them at Eda's face knocking her back.
"That's how you punch." Minato smirks using the same words she told them from day one.
"Well, I'll be you kids are actually learning." Eda smirks standing back up.
"Yeah we are." Minato smiles as Eda pats both kids on the head.
"Oh you kids." Grabbing them by the head she banged the two heads together.
"Ow!" Both groaned in pain.
"Maybe that'll teach you to doubt my teaching methods and for calling me the worst." Eda said.
"Oh you heard that huh?" Minato cringed.
"You guys were pretty loud." King confirms.
"Noted." Luz said.
"Come on let's head home. I'm hungry." Eda said helping them up and leaving.
As they exited the building Lilith was walking down the street.
Lilith was walking down the street looking at her phone.
"Hmm headquarters said they were sending someone who could be a great help in this case." Lilith said looking around for anywhere they might be.
However, there was only one other vehicle, an ice cream truck.
Narrowing her eyes, Lilith knocks on the door.
Slowly opening the eyes slot some eyes looked down at Lilith.
"Oh about time you got here." A male voice said.
Opening the door Lilith enters to see a flamboyant man with dark skin and a purple outfit and another worker with blonde hair, white collar shirt, and glasses.
The ice cream truck was filled with tons of high-tech gear and large screens.
"Quite the interesting choice of base have you here." Lilith said.
"It's great for many reasons. Easy to blend in, lots of room for our gear and best of all." The man reached into a freezer and pulls out a popsicle. "Completely stocked with eats."
"Headquarters thought I needed your help?" Lilith asks.
"Yep lots of crazy stuff has been happening and we're all you got." The man said.
"And you?" Lilith asks looking to the other one.
"Oh sweetie Jenny's not much of a talker. But trust me no one's a better assistant than Jenny." He said looking. "Oh Jenners honey are you blushing?"
Looking over Lilith could indeed see a blush on Jenny's face.
"So if that one is Jenny that means you must be Mr. X." Lilith said looking at him.
"You know why they call me Mr. X?" He asks.
"Because you obsess over all things extraordinary." Lilith finishes.
"Exactly. And rumor has it these two might be from another world. Hit it Jenners." Mr. X orders as Jenners made an image of Witch and Warlock appeared on screen.
"Impressive." Lilith said.
"As you know it's been little over a week since they were first sited, but the problem is they always make a quick getaway before anyone can find them. That means they're hiding among us but they obviously can't be familiar with our world that quickly which means…" Mr. X hints.
"Someone is sheltering them." Lilith realized.
"Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner." Mr. X smiles biting his popsicle when they heard a knock on the door.
Slowly opening the window, Mr. X looks to see a little boy.
"One popsicle please." He said holding out a dollar.
"Sorry little man, this was the last one." Mr. X said showing the one he was eating before attempting to close the window only for it to be stuck. "Hold on." Putting the popsicle in his mouth Mr. X pulls with all his might shutting the window.
"Perhaps your choice of cover blends in a little too well." Lilith said.
"Maybe, but right now gotta track down this Witch and Warlock before things get messy." Mr. X said.
"Couldn't agree more." Lilith said.
"Well then it sounds like we're in business." Mr. X said finishing his popsicle.
